"At the end of last year, French special forces
conducted top-secret exercises in preparation for a potential intervention in
Ukraine - reports the Intelligence Online portal.
On February 24, 2022, a full-scale conflict in Ukraine started. Bloomberg presented details of the 16th package of EU sanctions
against Russia.
When French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime
Minister Keir Starmer once again spoke last week about the possibility of
European forces in Ukraine, the French armed forces had already completed
exercises preparing them for such a scenario.
In the last months of 2024, the French army conducted
several weeks of top-secret preparatory exercises at one of the training
grounds in France.
Codenamed Perseus. Drone and intelligence deployment
exercises
As Intelligence Online writes, analyzing materials obtained
by the portal, the purpose of the week-long maneuvers of the Special Forces of
the Land Forces (Commandement des Actions Spéciales Terre - CAST) under the
codename Perseus was the potential support for Ukraine in the event of a
Russian offensive from Belarusian territory.
The French daily "Le Monde", citing its sources,
reports that the topic of sending Western soldiers and private military
companies to Ukraine has returned to the discussions between France and Great
Britain.
The units that make up CAST, including the prestigious
French 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment (13e RDP), exercised in an area with
characteristics similar to the bend of the Dnieper River north of Kiev. The aim
of the exercise was to train teams in the deployment of operators and drones
during missions in hostile conditions, similar to those that the military may
encounter in Ukraine.
The exercise also involved units specializing in satellite
imaging and analysis of data collected in this way, as well as those that focused
on gathering intelligence information on the movements and plans of Russian
troops using the social media platform Telegram.
France lags behind in drone production
One of the conclusions drawn from the secret exercises was
how much France lags behind in terms of the development and supply of FPV
drones, which are firstly fast, secondly – provide live images, and thirdly,
are cheap to produce.
The portal notes that the French department of arms
procurement has not included large-scale production of FPV drones on its list
of urgent tasks, nor is it focusing on the use of AI-based algorithms to
automatically identify military equipment."
Rest assured: If the Lithuanian Government will fulfill today's promise to participate in this Napoleon-like French adventure, then the small Lithuanian territory will be not safe.
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